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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Mobile location"”.
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Integrating Haptic Feedback into Mobile Location Based Services
… motions to a haptic-enabled device such as a mobile phone. Historically, human-computer interaction has been visual - text and images on the screen. Haptic feedback can be an important additional method especially in Mobile Location Based Services such as knowledge discovery, pedestrian …
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A distributed architecture for mobile, location-dependent applications
… to pervasive computing, the support for location-based resource discovery is uncommon. The goal of this work is to integrate a location-support system with a resource discovery system to support location-based resource discovery. Our integrated system provides an in-building solution …
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Adding audio clips functionality to TaleBlazer/
TaleBlazer is a platform for creating and playing mobile location-based augmented reality games. This thesis describes the design and implementation of audio clips functionality in the platform. Audio clips are recordings that can be attached to text in TaleBlazer games. This report presents …
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Sharing the big apple : a survey study of people, place and locatability
… and thus, the fabric of civil society itself. Mobile location-aware community systems offer one path to redress these problems by enhancing community cohesion and the formation of social capital by helping people to meet each other and coordinate their actions. However, little is known about …
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Cloud computing and context-awareness: A study of the adapted user experience
Today, mobile technology is part of everyday life and activities and the mobile ecosystems are blossoming, with smartphones and tablets being the major growth drivers. The mobile phones are no longer just another device, we rely on their capabilities in work and in private. We look to our mobile …
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Multimodal, Embodied and Location-Aware Interaction
This work demonstrates the development of mobile, location-aware, eyes-free applications which utilise multiple sensors to provide a continuous, rich and embodied interaction. We bring together ideas from the fields of gesture recognition, continuous multimodal interaction, probability theory and …
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A new location-based service architecture with efficient transmission method using control channels
Location-based services (LBS) are services that are provided to users according to their location; these services can either be provided to the user when requested (pulled), for example, when the user asks, “Where is the nearest hospital?” or sent automatically (pushed) when the user’s location …
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The transformation of public space : mobile technology practices and urban liminalities
… attention to the urban contexts in which mobile information and communications technologies (mICT) are used, and on the so-called transformative practices of mobile ‘location-awareness’. These diverse fields, that simultaneously attend to the topics of urbanism, space, and technology, …
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Privacy preservation in social media environments using big data
"With the pervasive use of mobile devices, social media, home assistants, and smart devices, the idea of individual privacy is fading. More than ever, the public is giving up personal information in order to take advantage of what is now considered every day conveniences and ignoring the …